pot – English noun declension

English noun forms of pot

Noun: pot
Singularpot
Pluralpots

Sample Sentences

  • Hunting in the year 1000 was still a democratic pastime. Every free-born Anglo-Saxon had the right to enter the forest and bring home game for the pot. [1999, Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger, The Year 1000: What life was like at the turn of The First Millennium, London: Abacus, published 2000, page 143:]
  • He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own. [1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:]
  • Shit or get off the pot.
  • “Clinton,” Gail cried from outside, “are you going to sit on the pot all day?” [2011, Ben Zeller, Secrets of Beaver Creek, page 204:]
  • Near bedtime, about 10 p.m. or so, I sit on the pot. My “routine” is at night so as to shorten the morning get readies and start work on time. Sometimes the p.m. pot routine is successful, sometimes not. I can only blame myself, of course, when the big event doesn’t occur. I need to drink more water during the day. [2011 December 27, Ken Jacuzzi with Diane Holloway, “This Is Your Life, Ken Jacuzzi!”, in Jacuzzi: A Father’s Invention to Ease a Son’s Pain, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, →ISBN, part III (Learning, Marriage, and Stuff), page 385:]
  • Alfred Hitchcock once told François Truffaut he wanted to make a film that would examine a city entirely through food and, unusually, waste. […] Samuel Beckett expressed this artistic vision on a more intimate scale. “Dish and pot, dish and pot, these are the poles,” his narrator says in “Malone Dies.” The dish, we discuss freely: Food, in literature and elsewhere, is part of what we talk about when we talk about culture. The pot, at the other end of the alimentary canal, remains a transgressive topic. [2023 June 26, Dwight Garner, “Let’s Talk About the Bathroom Scene”, in The New York Times Book Review, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Jun 2023:]
  • "So kindly keep the vainglorious enumeration of your pots for the benefit of those village idiots who compose your particular set of boozing companions." [1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 85:]
  • There are plenty of pubs and bars all over Australia (serving beer in schooners – 425ml or middies/pots ~285ml), and if you don′t fancy those you can drink in wine bars, pleasant beer gardens, or with friends at home. [2009, Deborah Penrith et al., Live & Work in Australia, page 187:]
  • Rowten Pot
  • After his arrest, his prospects went to pot.
  • The pot is an iron hat with broad brims: there are many under the denomination in the Tower, said to have been taken from the French... [1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 12:]
  • No one's interested. You need to sweeten the pot.
  • a pension pot
  • a savings pot
  • Fabienne: I wish I had a pot.
  • Butch: You were lookin' in the mirror and you wish you had some pot?
  • Fabienne: A pot. A pot belly. Pot bellies are sexy.
  • Butch: Well you should be happy, 'cause you do.
  • Fabienne: Shut up, Fatso! I don't have a pot! I have a bit of a tummy, like Madonna when she did "Lucky Star". It's not the same thing. [1994, Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction:]
  • England were shipping penalties at an alarming rate - five in the first 15 minutes alone - and with Wilkinson missing three long-distance pots of his own in the first 20 minutes, the alarm bells began to ring for Martin Johnson's men. [2011 October 1, Tom Fordyce, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland”, in BBC Sport:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Germanic *puttaz
3. Old English pott
4. Proto-Germanic *puttaz
5. Frankish *pottder.
6. Vulgar Latin pottum
7. Old French potbor.
8. Middle English pot
9. English pot
10. From Middle English pot, potte, from Old English pott (“pot”) and Old French pot (“pot”) (probably from Frankish *pott); both Old English and Frankish from Proto-Germanic *puttaz (“pot”), from Proto-Indo-European *budnós (“a type of vessel”).
11. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Pot (“pot”), Dutch pot (“pot”), German Low German Pott (“pot”), German Pott (“pot”), Swedish potta (“chamber pot”), Icelandic pottur (“tub, pot”), Old Armenian պոյտն (poytn, “pot, earthen pot”). Also, Old Norse pottr (“pot, tub, basin”).
12. The sense of ruin or deterioration was originally a general allusion to "being chopped up and tossed in a (normally fiery) pot, like a piece of meat" (i.e. to get wasted or done with (by someone)). The 'clean' slang term which was used in reference to toilet rooms and lavatories apparently derives from English chamberpots, although now usually encountered as potty in the context of children's toilet training. See: Middle English Nouns 'pot', Old English Nouns 'pott', Dutch Nouns 'pot', German Nouns 'Pott', Swedish Nouns 'potta', Icelandic Nouns 'pottur', Old Norse Nouns 'pottr'.

Verbs referencing "pot"

Catalan Nouns pot, Dutch Nouns pot, French Nouns pot, English Nouns putty, Finnish Nouns potti, German Nouns Pott.